@JanetteB @okies

He tells Clara he wasn’t talking to her (re the boyfriend) – he says he was talking about himself ie it’s he who was fantasising (creating a fantasy normality where he is liked and accepted) about being her boyfriend.

@Steve-Thorp (good to see you back) Thanks for bringing up all the chalking on the wall… and the floor… I…[Read more]

@okies (Sorry about the misdirection earlier) It is possible that the words were written with a dual meaning in mind. The Doctor, I am certain, meant the words for Clara. The question is, has he actually met Missy before, are they also travelling on different time streams, as with River or is Missy purely dellusional? She appears to exist in a…[Read more]

@Okies – yes, he did say he’d invented a boyfriend before

and it’s really hard to get rid of an android.

Good spot. So, probably not a throw away line, then. 😉

At the time, didn’t we all think it was a jokey reference to Scream of the Shalka?